Algebraic topology

Author: ROBERTM.SWITZER
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book is the result of lecture courses on algebraic topology given by the author at the University of Manchester in 1967-1970, at Cornell University in 1970-1971 and at the Georg August University, G?ttingen, in 1971-1972. The level of the material is more advanced than that of a first-year graduate course in algebraic topology; it is assumed that the student has already had a course on basic algebraic topology which includes singular homology, the fundamental group and covering spaces. Moreover, a student who has never encountered differentiable manifolds will probably have difficulty with Chapter 12. On the other hand, no knowledge of homotopy theory beyond the fundamental group is assumed. This book is a reference on algebraic topology.